Harm reduction for smokers with little to no quit interest: can tobacco policies encourage switching to e-cigarettes?

ABSTRACT:

Objective

A pressing tobacco policy concern is how to help smokers who have little interest in quitting cigarettes, a group that often suffers severe health consequences. By switching from cigarettes to e-cigarettes, they could obtain nicotine, potentially with less harm. We examined if policy-relevant attributes of cigarettes/e-cigarettes might encourage these smokers to switch to e-cigarettes.

Methods

An online survey and discrete choice experiment on a nationally-representative sample of adult smokers in the US who reported low interest in quitting (n=2000). We modelled preference heterogeneity using a latent class, latent variable model. We simulated policies that could encourage switching to e-cigarettes.

Results

Participants formed two latent classes: (1) those

SUBMITTER: Buckell J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347898 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature